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Hamilton

UTC−4

Canada · EDT

Summer
20:44:59Live

Mon, 14 Sept 2026

00:00↑ 05:42↓ 21:0624:00
Sunrise
05:42
Sunset
21:06
Daylight
15.4hrs
Population
570K
Season
Summer
Next full moon
14 Jul
Buck Moon

Timezone Guide

Hamilton, Canada runs on UTC−4. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 2 Nov. Hamilton and New York currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Hamilton lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. There is a 5-hour difference between Hamilton and London. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–13:00 in Hamilton lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. There is a 13-hour difference between Hamilton and Tokyo. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with Tokyo, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Toronto, Caracas, Havana. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Hamilton.

Practical Info

Hamilton (Canada) is home to roughly 570K people. Today brings about 15.4 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:42, sunset at 21:06. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 2 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 43° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.

Flag

Canada

Canada

Capital

Ottawa

Continent

North America

Time Zone

EDT · America/Toronto

Coordinates

43.26°N, 79.87°W

Currency

CAD ($)

Calling Code

+1

Driving Side

Right

Hemisphere

Northern

Language

English, French

Measurement System

Metric

Did You Know?

A City on an Escarpment

Hamilton sits astride the Niagara Escarpment and has over a hundred waterfalls within its boundaries — more than any other city its size in the world, which is why it calls itself the waterfall capital.

The clock: Hamilton keeps Eastern Time. It produced the majority of Canadian steel for most of the 20th century.

Annual Daylight

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Working Hours

2h overlap
HamiltonUTC−4
06121824
Your locationUTC+3
06121824